Jane walked into Maura's lab to find Senior Criminalist Susie Chang stood in the corner of the room, staring at the wall.

"Susie?" Jane asked, no idea what was going on. "Why are you in the corner?"

"Maura got mad some blood work results were late and told me to stand in the corner"

"And you actually did it?" Jane raised one of her brows.

"She scared me!" Susie laughed nervously.

"Well you can move now"

"Maura said I couldn't move until she said so"

"Well I'll deal with Maura, is she in her office?"

"She was last time I saw her"

Jane headed to Maura's office once she had made sure Susie had gone back to work.

"Hey babe" Jane smiled as she walked in and took a seat on the awful plastic chair Maura seemed to love so much. "These are for you" Jane handed her wife the flowers.

"Oh Jane, they're beautiful!" Maura gasped, her eyes filling with tears. "Thank you!"

Noticing Maura looked as though she was about to burst into tears, Jane changed the subject. Damn hormones!

"Maur, why was Susie facing the wall?"

"We didn't have a naughty step so I settled for the naughty corner" Maura replied as though it was the most normal thing in the world.

"You do know she's a fully grown woman, right? You can't go treating her like a child - even if you do have pregnancy brain!"

"I put Susie in the corner and I can just as easily do the same to you!" Maura scolded Jane in her 'mother' tone.

"Bring it" Jane replied seductively.

"Don't because the mood i'm in I'll jump you right here" Maura warned Jane as she stood up from behind her desk and waddled toward the door, Jane quickly on her heal.

(-)

Whilst in the car on the way to Nando's (as Maura had told Jane she was craving chicken) Maura had fallen asleep, her head resting against the passenger side window. Once Maura had fallen asleep, Jane had turned the radio up ever so slightly as Maura's usual adorable snores were now sounding more like a drunk walrus and an elephant were beating the crap out of each other. She also had to resist the very strong urge of taking photo's of sleeping Maura because last time she did, she was on the couch for a week - and Maura wasn't even pregnant at the time!

"Maur" Jane whispered as she pulled into the parking lot. "...Maura"

"Hngf" was the response that came from Maura.

Jane was walking on eggshells with Maura lately. This pregnancy was making her crazy and it scared Jane. She figured that waking Maura up would be better than letting her sleep and then making her miss a meal. Contemplating the best way to wake her up, Jane settled on kissing her cheek.

"Maura sweetie, we're here" Jane smiled as Maura's eyes fluttered open.

"How long was I out?" Maura asked sleepily as she arched her back streching the kinks out.

"About 20 minutes"

"I guess our workout this morning tired me out" Maura smiled before placing a kiss on Jane's lips.

Jane smiled slightly. Happy Maura was a rare thing lately! She unbuckled her seat belt and then helped Maura out of the car before walking into the restaurant hand in hand with her heavily pregnant wife. Maura's pace seemed to quicken as soon as the smell of food invaded her senses and before she knew it she was more or less pulling Jane behind her as she entered.

After lunch, Maura had eaten a farm full of chicken, the pair headed to the hospital.

"No Finn today?" their usual doctor smiled as Maura hopped ont the bed with the help of Jane.

"Nope, he's at daycare" Jane smiled back, taking Maura's hand in her own.

"How is everything at home?" The doctor asked. "I understand things are very stressful right now?"

"We're coping as best we can" Maura replied, giving Jane's hand a reassuring squeeze.

"And how is mommy feeling?"

"Fine" Maura replied.

"Maur!" Jane scolded her through her teeth, causing the doctor to raise her eyebrow at Maura.

"Fine...my back constantly aches, my ankles have swollen up, i'm a hormone casserole, I have heartburn 24/7, I have to pee every 15 minutes, i'm always hungry... and that's on top of me being stressed with work and an overactive three year old" Maura huffed as Jane kissed her hand sympathetically.

"That sounds normal but if things get any worse you come and see me, okay?" the doctor smiled before she squeezed the blue gel on Maura's mammoth sized stomach.

The image of two babies appeared on the monitor screen sending Jane and Maura into blissful happines.

"Hmmmm" the doctor seemed to say a little louder than she would have liked.

"Hmmmm?" Jane repeated, her tone full of worry and stress. She had gone from blissfully happy to worries sick in a second - Maura too.

"Their heartbeats are a little too fast, but it's nothing to worry about"

"Nothing to worry about?! But you said 'hmmmm' and then said their heartbeats are too fast!"

"It's probably from all the extra stress. Just take it easier from now on" the doctor smiled re-assuringly.

"Did you hear that Maur? Bed rest for you-"

"-She did NOT say bed rest, she said 'take it easy' which means work less" Maura replied smugly.

Snowballs chance in hell was she ever going to be on bed rest! She was a woman and women were designed to have babies. She still had another month ahead of her before she was due to take her maternity leave, and she was going to make the most of that month! Millions of women had worked full term with children, hell, she had worked till 38 weeks with Finn and would be working as long as she could now if she hadn't have gone into labour in the middle of a breifing and ruining Cavanaugh's carpet. Jane liked to think of that as Finn making his mark as a future homocide detective!

"Is there anything else other than that I can do?" Maura asked, knowing the answer but hoing for a miracle anyway.

"All I can say is start taking things easier and try not to get as stressed out" the doctor replied as she printed an image of the babies out and handed Maura a towel to wipe her stomach clean with.

(-)

After the doctor had told Maura she had to take it easy, Cavanaugh had given the pair the rest of the day off and they made the most of their time off by catching up on weeks of lost sleep. Maura found it hard to get comfortable in any position now a days and hated tossing in turning in fear of disrupiting Jane's sleep, and also the irrational fear that she would roll over and crush Jane. Although that fear was reciprocated with Jane, not Maura roling over and crushing her, but her rolling over and crushing the babies. They had had the same fear when they were pregnant with Finn too.

At 6pm Angela brought Finn home after she had picked him up from daycare and then taken him out for dinner. Jane walked into the living room about five minutes later to her mother and son sat on her sofa watching cartoons.

"Hey ma" Jane smiled sleepily as she plonked down on the sofa next to her mother.

"Mommy!" Finn exclaimed a the sight of Jane, beofre climbing over Angela and jumpng into Jane's lap. "I miss you and Mama today"

"We missed you too, buddy" Jane said as she squeezed Finn tightly.

"Where Mama?" Finn asked.

"She's sleeping right now, bud. You can see her later"

"Okay, I let her sheep"

"How is Maura anyway?" Angela asked, noticing the stress on her daughters face.

"She's...well, stressed. The doctor said she's got to take it easy because the stress is effecting the babies"

"Is she on bed rest from now on then?"

"You know Maura, Ma! Of course not!" Jane huffed. "I wish she was but it's my fault she's so stressed out so I can hardly say anything"

"Your fault?" Angela asked her daughter.

"Yeah, I'm hardly ever here for her. She says i'm working too much and her hormones are making her crazy and we're arguing like crazy"

"Can't you cut down on your hours or something?"

"I'm working so many hours because i'm tryng to catch Hoyt and whoever is threatening us. We got into it...and I mean really into it this morning about it. I just...I don't know what to do, ma" Jane's voice was starting to break and so she exited the living room and walked to the kitchen, her mother following.

"Janey" Angela tried to pull her daughter into an embrace but Jane only squirmed and pushed away at her mothers touch.

"Don't ma...I just want things to go back to the way they were. I mean, we had a good day today but that was only after the worst arguement we've ever had. I'm scared of loosing her" a tear rolled down Jane's cheek as she confessed everything to her mother.

"Janey, if I know anything about you and Maura, its that no matter what, you two will always be together! You're not going to loose her-"

"-That's what I thought about you and Pop but then I went and screwed that up just like i'm going to screw this up"

"Hey! You did notscrew things up with me and your father, we had been having problems for years! All marriages are hard, there are going to always be ups and downs but you two are made for each other, believe me, once those little babies come, you're not going to remember or acre about any of the problems you're having now!"

It broke Angela's heart to see her daughter like this. She loved the fact that Jane was now opening up to her about things but she hated the fact that her daughter had crap that she needed to open up to her about. The current situation Jane and Maura were in was starting to take it's toll on everyone, even Finn. They had been ripping eachother apart for weeks and Jane hoped that today was the start of things getting back to normal, or at least as normal as they could be in this sitation! She hoped that Maura would be happy and less stressed from now on, she knew that was like wishing for the impossible but that didn't stop her from wishing it. A whole new wave of emotions hit Jane and she found herself leaning on her mother, wrapping her arms around Angela, Angela squeezing Jane as tight as she could.

"Is everything okay?" Maura asked as she walked into the kitchen to find Jane and Angela hugging.

"Everythings fine, babe" Jane smiled as she extended one of her arms so Maura could also be involved in their hug.

Maura shuffled over and wrapped her arms around Jane and Angela. She sensed that something was infact wrong with Jane but that she had worked through it and so decided to not press Jane any further. As soon as Jane wraped her arms around Maura's back, the babies started kicking.

"Oh God, they're just like Jane" Angela laughed. "They squirm as soon as anyone tries to hug them!"

Jane and Maura both laughed at Angela's comment.

"They certainly are Rizzoli's" Jane smiled smugly.

"For all you know, they could be budding scientists in there!" Maura raised her eyebrows at Jane.

"No. No science camp!" Jane laughed.

"You say that now" Maura laughed.

At that moment Finn came bursting into the kithen and darted straight for Maura, wrapping his arms around her leg.

"I miss you Mama!" he squeeled as he squeezed her leg as tight as he could. "Did you have a nice sheep?"

"I did little buddy, but i'm happier I woke up so I could see you!" Maura smiled while she tousled her son's thick black locks.

"Did you see babies gain today?"

"We did, you want to see the picture?"

"YEAH!"

Jane fished the scan picture out of Maura's Prada bag that resided on the counter top and bent down so she was level with Finn and showed him the picture.

"That them?" Finn asked pointing at the babies in the image.

"It sure is!" Jane smiled.

"They no look like peanuts anymore!"

"Thats because they're growing, that's why Mama's belly gets bigger all the time" Maura added.

"They look like aliens!" Finn laughed.

"That's your little sisters you're talking about, mister!" Jane smiled.

"I like aliens but I love the babies" Finn smiled. "Just not when they make mama sick and mean!"

Jane smiled and scooped her son up, resting him on her hip as she handed the ultrasound photo to her mother. Angela welled up as soon as she laid eyes on her unborn Granddaughters. She wrapped her arms around Jane and Maura and pulled them into a tight hug.

(-)

Maura and Jane lay in bed, they had put Finn down an hour ago were basking in the silence. Well, they were silent until Jane decided that she would start talking to the twins. Jane thought Maura had fallen asleep.

"Y'know, you had better be ready for a whole lotta crazy!"

"Huh?" Maura raised her eyebrow having no idea what Jane was talking about, she opened her eyes to find Jane sitting up in bed and talking straight to her belly.

"You're big brother, Finn, he's crazy. He loves dinosaurs, although I think he's going to be obsessed with aliens by the time you two come out! But don't worry, you're gonna love him! And your Grandma Angela is crazy too, but she means well. She's always going to make you laugh and be there for you, whether you want her to be or not! I know I said no science camp, but if you guys are little science geeks like Maura then i'm going to be the proudest science camp mother there is. No pressure though, i'll still love you if you're thick as a post like Uncle Tommy! I hope you're like your mother though. I hope you guys are as smart, funny, beautiful and amazing as she is! Oh, and you guys had better be being good in there because your mother is already wigged out as it is! No fighting in there or i'm gonna have to have words when you guys come out! Okay? This is your other Mommy, Jane. I love you guys and I can't wait to meet you! Now, go to sleep and be good in there!" Jane smiled before kissing Maura's belly and then lying back down.

Maura wanted to tell Jane how sweet the things she had just said were but she didn't want to embarrass her as she obviously thought she was sleeping. Maura smiled as she wondered if this was the first time Jane had spoken to the babies when she was 'asleep' or if she had done it before. Maura wriggled back until she felt Jane's front against her back and she pulled Jane's arm around her so it rested on her belly. Jane placed a sleepy kiss on the back of Maura's neck as she snuggled in closer to her wife's warm body. They both had huge smiles on their sleepy faces, they hadn't slept like this in ages. They hadn't gone to bed happy for ages! Maybe things were really starting to get better between them.

Okay guys, I know the chapters just get crapper as I go on and i'm sorry! I hope you liked it anyway. Thanks for the reviews, keep them coming! Do you think Maura will take things easy? What is Jane going to do about work? Are things really going to get better? Let me know what you think!

Oh, and Soph, if you're reading, I know I said I was going to give up on this story but yay for my internet playing up leaving me bored shitless!

I'll try and update soon! Hope everyone had an awesome Christmas and has an awesome New Year:-)